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Then at that point AMD has been the same for at least AM4 and AM5. The last time a socket meant truly different generations of hardware was maybe AM3 or LGA 775. Everything since then has been incremental. LGA1156 was two generations kinda similar, 1155 was two, 1150 was technically 3 but had one distinct refresh. Maybe 1151 since it had four generations but split into two and two? idk, that’s not exclusive to intel or amd

I still get new ones every now and then from buying old hardware from the 90’s and early 2000’s, I would love to see some dumb retro network thing set up that uses them for something kinda like how you can use 3rd party connections for windows xp/vista updates or getting a zune to function? imagine you could still run your AOL discs and they registered somewhere online and gave you limited time on a special website …actually I might be on to something

Basically this all id really want to do is clean up the mainlands visual appearance, tidy up the terrain, fix broken builds, remove any and all advertisements of any type im the guy who spends 200 hours in cities skylines before I get to “metropolis” becaude I’ve named every single street and set up an elaborate bus network that rivals that of Chicago or New York with limitless money and control over all the land, all I would do is walk around and make it look pretty

That’s the difficult part about pcs as a hobby, or just trying to DIY one. Anyone can put together a pc, it’s all keyed, you could reasonably figure out how it goes together with no prior knowledge because it’s all square peg square hole. Motherboard manuals basically tell you how to put the whole thing together. But knowing what to buy and how it all works together, the market research, consumer knowledge, that’s the hard part. (I don’t intend for the following to sound hostile) That’s why you ended up with an i7 from 2011 and an RTX 3050 combo in 2024. People prey on consumers who don’t know any better, you mentioned it yourself in another thread that you saw it was an i7 and didn’t really think much of it further than that.

DDR3 support ended after Braswell for intel and after the FX series for AMD. DDR4 for consumer sockets is AMD AM4 in its entirely, and Intel LGA 1151, 1200 and some 1700 boards. DDR5 is AM5 in its entirety and most LGA 1700 boards. Theres others like the HEDT platforms but they’re not usually a consideration. the rest of this is mega nerd stuff The last DDR3 platform was basically Z97 LGA 1150 boards or AMD AM3+ boards. Both of which are ancient at this point, mid 2010’s stuff at the newest. You’re not going to find an option that presents you a viable cpu upgrade that lets you use DDR3. There a few very rare options like this board: https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/H310M-DS2V-DDR3-rev-10#kf which will let you use DDR3 with up to intel 9th gen, keep in mind at that point 6/7/8th gen were all DDR4, using DDR3 for a 9th gen processor is… well it’s an option but I wouldn’t recommend spending like $200 on a rare motherboard to do that. You will have to buy new ram if you buy anything made after like 2016. I wouldn’t recommend older Ryzen stuff either simply because it’s kinda outdated. That’s Ryzen 2000, they’re on 9000 right now. I would stick to newer systems or at most like 2 generations back if you’re buying used. You can pick up an intel alder lake 12th gen system for pretty cheap and they’ll hold up well. Or late AM4, like a B550 motherboard and a 5600x, that’s about as old as I’d recommend going. Both will be ddr4. The slot you are talking about, pci express, is referred to as pcie x16. It’s the full 16 lanes, full size slot. They come in various sizes and have less lanes as they get smaller. A GPU will use a 16 lane slot but some can use x8. It’s all inter compatible, you can plug an x8 card into an x16 slot or an x16 card into an open ended x1 slot, it’ll just run poorly with less lanes than it needs but it’ll run. Don’t worry too much about pcie versions, anything today is 4.0 or 5.0 and that’s fine for anything. The scenarios where that comes into play are very rare, like running top end gpus on old boards or running in reduced lanes. Your 3050 is actually a pcie 4.0 x8 card, as in it’s designed to run with that bandwidth offered. You will see better performance out of that gpu by having it on a system with pcie 4.0, as your current system is actually pcie 2.0. Basically having a pcie 4.0 x8 gpu on a pcie 2.0 motherboard means it’s expecting a data throughput of 32gbps, the speed of a 4.0 x8 connection. Since it’s an x8 card it’s running at pcie 2.0 x8 throughput, or a potential 8gbps, 1/4 of what it’s expecting. That can slow it down a lot depending on the use case.

A ran a 9600x on AM5 until recently and that’s about the best you can reasonably do for SL as it simply has the best single core performance on the market before you get into options which offer rapidly diminishing returns. Like the 9800X or whatever is technically better but not by any amount worth spending the increased amount of money on. Motherboards and CPU’s are compatible depending on socket and chipset. For example a 9600X will require an AM5 motherboard, and not just any AM5 board, it has to be one that supports the 9000 series. Some 7000/8000 series boards are forward compatible with updates, some aren’t. This explains the situation specific to AM5: https://www.digitalcitizen.life/x670e-x670-b650e-b650-chipsets/ And this applies to intel and AMD going back decades until you get to the mid 90’s where super socket 7 existed and supported Intel, AMD, Cyrix, Rise and IDT processors, though that’s a historical exception. Otherwise cpus are dependent on specific motherboard compatibility. Like a Kaby Lake i7 7700K will only work on LGA 1151 sockets, but also only first and second gen 1151 like Z170 or Z270 (or B250 or H110). It won’t work on 3rd gen or 3rd gen refresh 1151 boards like Z370 or Z390 (or B365 or H310)… with exceptions but that’s not relevant either. Ram is also specific to board types, right now both intel and AMD are using DDR5 on all their current generation offerings. There are transitional era boards for Intel which support DDR4 though.

Modern DDR5 platforms are the worst for this. My 9600x on AM5 took nearly 15 minutes for its first boot after assembly because I tried 4x48gb of 5600mhz ddr5 and it took forever trying to figure out how to configure that memory. Even cutting that in half only cut down the boot times to a few minutes. Side note, firestorms AVX2 check doesn’t seem to recognize my N100 system at all, even though the N100 has AVX2 the firestorm installer is certain it doesn’t. Until I figure out a workaround I’m on the LL viewer on the low power pc.

Alright, changed up the downstairs entirely, looks way better than it did before I swear ive given Dreamland Designs at least a months salary at this point. i wanted to do this smaller thing after selling my land on zindra because i wanted to try making a home which still feels like and presents like a normal house, but is laid out with features that you actually need in SL like my previous place had a bathroom and kitchen, a proper dining room, etc. And its not like my SL avatar needs a bathroom, they dont cook, they dont sit down to eat. But what i really need in my house is seating for sitting around with others, and surfaces to put games and stuff on. Practical SL home design, why have a bathroom if you can have two 4 person seating areas? AND, i gotta add, something i like about a 512m moderate parcel is that with premium plus and not buying adult land for 10x the price, i can get several 512m parcels and do little builds like this over and over, it costs comparatively nothing, so if i get bored of this place i dont have to just drop it and go start from scratch, i can just go get another 512m parcel somewhere else an have two places

It’s like $170/month for a full sim right? Thats definitely an expense not accessible to people who aren’t invested into SL as a primary hobby, but then those are probably the only people who would buy a full sim anyway.

It’s the best case scenario for a 750ti* most of them are 2gb cards im very well aware of the performance segment an entry level card from 2014 sits in, I have close to 100 different video cards, the 750ti is being used intentionally when I have substantially more powerful cards around The concern is more that the vram demands are exceeding the other graphical demands of the game by a lot, it’s pretty rare to come across a title that would do that without intentionally turning up a lot of settings beyond the overall performance of the card. SL doesn’t need a lot otherwise. The 750ti still produced a reasonable experience up until very recently where the only change in performance is hitting that vram ceiling. And really unless you’re in specific locations, it still performs the same as it has since pbr was introduced. But something over the last update caused that vram usage increase and I’m wondering if anyone else has seen the same?

Actually managed to use all 4gb of vram on my GTX 750ti, I was wondering what was causing an odd hard stutter in dense areas. Which is an interesting one, because that gpu keeps up with the demands of SL at modest settings just fine otherwise but now the vram doesn’t, and it’s a 4gb one at that, it’s already the best case scenario.

Thanks, it’s still definitely a work in progress, I was able to cheat before with a 2048m parcel but only using half of it to cram detail into 703 prims, now it’s a real challenge working with so little on a 512m parcel. My concern is more like how nonsexual nudity is described on the wiki as not being inherent adult, and not subject to the whole “all reasonable efforts for privacy” or however it’s described. But then it doesn’t say how one would describe an area as being acceptable for that circumstance? If that makes any sense? Or do I just still gotta do the whole private land, no visible avatars, no line of sight thing anyway?

and with that, new house is at the least functional ill put more time and optimization into it later, i wanted to do something a lot smaller with a smaller prim limit kinda feels like a dollhouse, pardon my humping badgers on the tv, theyre busy humping not 100% sure on the downstairs, it feels kinda messy, its supposed to feel a little messy but the upstairs (up ladder?) just feels a lot nicer even though theres way less going on idk, its been a few hours, ill play with it more some other time it has a cool view of the railroad and a train station i still dont really know how moderate land works, i have all PG furniture items but i swear to god if im in the middle of playing virtual barbie with the wife and someone swoops in to AR nude avatars im gonna be livid, but i dont want to be that guy to turn on ban lines and stuff

went wandering, sold my land and wanted to go find a different plot of land to play with ideally not on the adult continent because im sorry but im not spending 1500 USD on L$ to have the plot of land i really want, so ill just cope with jumping from moderate parcel to moderate parcel found this thing which is at the bottom of caldera lake in zygaena on herterocera atol and got myself a deana linden mug from 2006, an amusing find 18 years later theres still 12 left if you want a deana linden mug

grabbed it, cool spot, ty

What kind of performance are people getting with Rosetta? I’ve been contemplating tearing my pc apart and getting a mac mini and today I bit the bullet and took apart and listed the pc parts for sale. So now it’s a matter of if I get the Mac or not. Honestly if SL is at least playable and stable I’m for it.

I stopped using and deleted my discord years ago, was one of the first 20k users on it from the start. The problem I always had with decentralized circles like that is user based moderation. Most people kinda suck at community moderation and instead turn to using it as an outlet for power trips. Discords develop manipulative people into dangerous people, and open vulnerable people to danger. Avoid that nonsense like the plague.

The real gift this Christmas is money, I simply provide my wife money and she acquires Christmas themed objects to decorate with.

Performance between the two has nearly always been comparable in some product tiers for as long as the two have existed, really the only viable products we ever saw from any manufacturer were in the same performance brackets, if they weren’t, they wouldn’t succeed. It’s no surprise at all that for an openGL game really there’s not many major differences between the manufacturers at the same performance tiers. However the reason why I moved away from AMD cards as my primary gpu several years ago is simply due to product support. AMD throws their products into the legacy support bin so fast it’s not even funny, and long term driver support in general is hit and miss. Let me explain, I have close to 100 different gpus, here’s my R9 Fury Nano and a 4gb GTX 750ti. The R9 Fury Nano is a $649 2015 flagship adjacent tier gpu, it’s meant to compete with the GTX 980, and in its time it did so very well. The 750ti is an entry level $139 gpu from 2014, meant for less demanding titles, advertising 1080p esports performance or im not even joking, 720p AAA game expectations. A cost effective and very popular entry level option. The R9 Nano has hard limit of 4gb of HBM memory, which left it unappealing in the years to come, because even if it was extremely fast, 4gb became a limit very quickly after 2015/2016 when 1440p and 4k gaming became more common and games got more demanding on video memory. It received limited driver support even in its prime, and by the time Polaris launched the specialized driver support for the R9 Fury series in specific games slowed down a lot. AMD saw this product wasn’t going to be as successful as others and it got backburnered. In early 2021 they deemed the hardware obsolete. By 2022 it got its last driver update, and it’s just an Adrenaline Legacy driver that only works on Windows 10 and has no game specific optimizations, and nothing for newer titles at all. Meanwhile over on team green, here’s the up to date windows 11 mainstream driver for the 750ti https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/drivers/results/235904/ It’s not even on legacy yet. Guess which one performs better in any modern scenario? The 750ti, by a lot. And it’s entirely down to driver support. If you bust out games from 2016 on windows 8.1 and run era drivers, yeah the R9 Nano will smoke it. But it’s not 2016 and nobody except me runs windows 8.1 anymore. In order to be relevant in the mainstream you must be supported in it, modern windows and modern games. And the R9 Nano isn’t supported in modern windows or modern games, at all. Your best bet is legacy drivers on windows 10 and even then the 750ti will do better in newer titles that came out after the end of support for the nano. CS2 on these two cards is night and day, the 750ti plays it without thinking while the nano is a stuttery mess at best and hard crashes at worst. And SL is a similar story on a modern OS where driver support is important, windows 10 with legacy adrenaline drivers means the nano gets smoked by the 750ti. And if you have windows 11, well then the nano isn’t even on the table because it doesn’t have 11 drivers. And that’s why I can’t recommend AMD cards anymore, you won’t really know if you bought a card at a bad time until it’s too late, and then you have a product AMD is going to push into legacy purgatory in a few years while nvidia is fully supporting decade old hardware because its still in use by enough people that support for it matters. And it’s not just the one generation. Obviously all of the 200/300 series r9 cards went Eol at the same time, while the nvidia 700/900 series are still fully supported. Even Vega and the VII aren’t really getting driver priority anymore. I don’t really care if the hardware features of a modern AMD gpu are better than the nvidia options. It’s a coin flip if the hardware will be usable at all in 5 years.

I have folders for clothing, accessories, and misc avatar items. And then I only keep what I’m usually wearing in those folders, as I stop wearing other items often or switch up avatars, I archive the items I’m not using. So if I want to go back to them I can, it’s just a little reorganization. But otherwise it keeps inventory clutter to a minimum.

You gotta be reminded every now and then that none of it is real and its all disposable. Smallworlds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmallWorlds I had been playing SW since day one, i was in one of the first new user waves in mid 2008, i played it until it died in 2018. I think my avatar is actually in some of the last official screenshots of the game moments before it shut down forever. Thousands of dollars, probably thousands of hours, a whole collection of rare items and artwork created by myself and others ingame over the course of a decade. All the virtual experience, the friends list, the block list, every bit of money earned and spent, every gift ever given and ever received. Literally gone like flicking a lightswitch. And that sucked, but i looked at it like okay, its done, it simply ended. All things must come to an end. And it can be at your hand too. Plenty of people on all kinds of platforms simply decide one day that they arent going to play anymore. Maybe they return, maybe they dont. They dont really worry about the sunk cost fallacy of can they give up what theyve already put so much time into. Some of us do however and its a hurdle to overcome, and i think thats best overcome by simply rationalizing it. Just the same as why would you give up what youre already so committed to, you can view it instead as why be so committed to something that could be gone tomorrow, take it less seriously knowing that it wont last.

Usually I wear the same kind of stuff like I’m 90% cargo pants and hoodies and my avatar is almost always dressed the same if they’re dressed at all

There’s a lot of things we as people have been conditioned to not want to talk about. All kinds of societally imposed taboos, even with the knowledge of our conventional morals, allowing discussion, expression or reception of them first requires acknowledging the pre imposed perception of the matter before you can divert from the expected norm. (god that was a sentence and a half) In SL that doesn’t have to exist, you can walk into a moral, societal or cultural taboo without recognizing the preexisting consensus of views on it. You can simply ask why, without having to instead be presented societies interpretation first before your “why” has any merit in the eyes of others.

I’ve been a social game nerd on the internet since day 1. Honestly if 7 year old me knew SL was a thing in 2003 I probably would’ve been playing it. I have always found appeal with basically anything that functions as a chat room with stuff to do. And that’s predominantly how I view SL, or any social dominant game for that matter. It’s a different way to explore different chat rooms and find new interests, via a simulation of physical exploration. You don’t click the menu and pick a category and select a room for a topic you like. You walk from one room into the wilderness until you find something entirely new and unique that attracts your attention, maybe it’s something you’ve never even thought of before. Nearly no limitations also super heavily amplified that experience and I feel not enough people think about that aspect of it. If you want to make it weird, you can make it weird. Any thought that comes to mind on how to modify what you experience, you can try it out. Want to do a virtual book club? I go to one biweekly in SL, a private affair, much like how one would present one in real life. Really it’s just a visualization of what’s effectively just a voice chat room and a picture of a book. You don’t need SL for that, discord would arguably do that better. But what SL offers to that experience is you can change it however you like. I go to a book club as an anthropomorphic canine. I’m not the only one with a nonhuman avatar, there’s a person in our group whose avatar of choice isn’t even an organic being, they’re a small robot. The setting can be whatever we want, and not just like a themed backdrop, but the whole context of the discussion. It doesn’t have to be a comfortable conversation pit, or just a circle of chairs in a nice room. It can be tubes in a river, it can be a bike ride together across the continents, it can be in the air mid flight, it can be held in an active high intensity rave, where quietly in a group chat we’re discussing the impacts of Caradog Prichards childhood experiences. It invites a level of openness, when everything is so free-form, you don’t really think about limitations as much, in any context. When you remove the limitations of your surroundings, who you are and how you present yourself, you can look at and discuss your thoughts without limitation as well. You want to talk about the deeply sexual aspects of Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being? Not just reflecting on the surface level values of how sex was viewed as an addiction, but on what sex actually means to people? It’s not a topic you bring to a public library. But when everyone loses their inhibition on thought, as comes like a side effect of perusing a virtual world with no limits, topics can get deeply human in a strange way we otherwise would avoid thinking about, or tread around instead. Thats why I am here. SL being a virtual world inherently is a way to express yourself without inhibition. You can do more for processing your own thoughts, and hearing those of others, by detracting your real world thoughts from the equation entirely. It’s an entirely unique experience I’ve not found a complete equivalent to yet outside of social world games.